What are the main issues children and young people with mental health problems face?
We spend lots of time talking to children, young people, their families and the professionals who support them and they all tell us the same thing - mental health problems are on the increase and the support available to help people is getting harder to access. This means that treatable mental health problems like anxiety, depression and ADHD go untreated.
Another barrier to accessing appropriate help is the stigma around mental health. It is no surprise that young people who are really distressed, and already struggling with feelings they don't know how to process, are reluctant to get help when they face the risk of gaining a label that they know marks them out as "different". We need to challenge stigma and reclaim the term "mental health" - it is something we all have and it fluctuates for everyone at different times.
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